Team News Riveting
A steady stream of mourners thronged with flowers and watermelon juice to pray for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, who was assassinated in Nara on Friday.
The mourners placed the flowers and juice that Shinzo loved on a special stand set up in Nara where country’s most recognizable politician was gunned down while giving a campaign speech at the Kintetsu Line’s Yamato-Saidaiji Station. The local residents see the incident in Nara as humiliating.
A youth from Kyoto while placing a watermelon juice bottle in the stand said he could get a job at the company of his first choice because Abenomics measures pushed by Abe when he was prime minister had stabilized the economy.
According to officials, the body of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived at his home city, Tokyo, on Saturday, a day after he was assassinated. Shinzo’s wife, Akie Abe travelled from Nara with the former Japanese PM’s body to Tokyo. The funeral will take place on Tuesday.
A night vigil will be held on Monday, with Abe’s funeral to take place on Tuesday, attended by close friends, local media said. There was no immediate word on any public memorial service.
The killer, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, has admitted that he intended to kill Abe, believing he had ties with the group, the sources said.
The man who fatally shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told police that he initially planned to attack a leader of a religious group who he believed caused his mother to go bankrupt because of her donations to the group, investigative sources said Saturday.
